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title: 'This American Airman Drives the Jap from China''s Skies: Give Him Your Help! (Chinese New Year poster)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/american-airman-chinas-skies-1945/
description: 'A U.S. Office of War Information poster in Chinese, headed 恭賀新禧 (''Happy New Year''), borrows the form of a Chinese New Year door-god print: an American…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricature of a Japanese soldier trampled underfoot, and a wartime slur ("Jap") in the object's title. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![This American Airman Drives the Jap from China's Skies: Give Him Your Help! (Chinese New Year poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/american-airman-chinas-skies-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/american-airman-chinas-skies-1945.jpg)

# This American Airman Drives the Jap from China's Skies: Give Him Your Help! (Chinese New Year poster)

A U.S. Office of War Information poster in Chinese, headed 恭賀新禧 ('Happy New Year'), borrows the form of a Chinese New Year door-god print: an American airman with a submachine gun, the U.S. Army Air Forces star on his arm and a Chinese-flag patch on his shoulder, stands on a blue-faced Japanese soldier in front of the U.S. flag. The headline (LOC's English title is its translation) asks viewers to help him; the smaller text is addressed to Chinese in the occupied areas.

- **Date:** 1945
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** U.S. Office of War Information (for distribution in China)
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Roosevelt Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=roosevelt-administration)
- **Leader:** [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=franklin-d-roosevelt)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)
- **Regime:** [Roosevelt administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/roosevelt-administration/)
- **Leader:** [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/roosevelt-administration/#franklin-d-roosevelt)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/90707826/), retrieved September 27, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (U.S. government work, Office of War Information) U.S. Office of War Information, 1945. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-702.

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
恭賀新禧

這個美國空軍把日本人趕出了中國的天空——援助他！

[illegible — several columns of smaller printed text beneath the headline, too small and low-resolution in this scan to transcribe reliably]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Happy New Year

This American air force airman has driven the Japanese out of China's skies — help him!

[illegible]
```

The dense small-print paragraph below the headline (per LOC's catalog, likely further appeal text for Chinese readers in occupied areas) is at the resolution limit of this Kodak transparency scan; not transcribed rather than guessed. The 'FEB 23 1945' stamp, 'Chungking' note, and the Kodak color/gray-scale reference strips in the frame are photographic apparatus, not part of the poster, and are excluded.

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